National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
W. A. Swanson worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.
Thomas Farrell (1891 – 1967) was a major general in the US Army. Farrell was hand-picked by General Groves to serve as his deputy, or as the Deputy Commanding General of the Manhattan Project.